If you’re chasing shifty financial transactions around the world, how do you decide what to focus on?

What we focus on is dictated largely, if not entirely, by the foreign policy and national security objectives that the administration as a whole is pursuing. What we’ve done over the past 10 years is to create a new method of projecting U.S. power. We do that in a way that is unique in the world.

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